Tag: bush
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US to Drop Color-Coded Terror Alerts
The United States is planning to replace its color-coded terror alert system drafted in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks with detailed threat advisories, media reported Thursday.
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Election Day 2010: Voting For a Restraining Order?
By the time the ballots are counted in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Obama’s personal approval ratings will have fallen to historic lows and he will be universally recognized as the man who brought ruin on the Democratic party.
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10/7 Newspurge: People Asking Questions, Lost In Confusion
New FOIA video shows 9/11 firefighters discussing huge explosions before towers collapsed // UK recognizes druidry as religion for first time // New album by Killing Joke ‘Absolute Dissent’ w/ single ‘European Super State’ // New face, same imperialism: Obama no better than Bush
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obama proposes $50 billion for road, rail, airways
labor day push for planes, trains & automobiles from reuters: President Barack Obama would spend $50 billion on revamping highways, rails and airport runways to create jobs in the near term and improve the long-term U.S. transportation network. The $50 billion would be spent in the first year and be part of a six-year transportation…
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5th anniversary of hurricane katrina: somber ceremonies
flashback: painful lessons of hurricane katrina from buzztab: Hurricane Katrina left 1800 people dead and New Orleans virtually underwater but it was 5 years ago and today US is marking 5th anniversary of the horrible day when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The somber ceremonies commemorated for occasion started on Saturday and in Louisiana…
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Obama Boasts ‘End of Iraq War’ As Iran War Kicks Into High Gear
In attempt to posture as a man of peace and of kept-promises in the lead-up to the midterm elections, President Obama has declared the “End of the War in Iraq,” claiming that withdrawal of troops from Iraq will be completed by August 31, 2010 and is ‘on schedule, as promised.’
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‘largest intel leak in history’: wikileaks drops ‘afghan war diaries’
from ap: Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted the documents on its website Sunday. The New York Times, London’s Guardian…
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Obama Admin Worse on Whistleblowers Than Previous Puppet Admin
The Obama administration is being accused of getting away with crackdowns on government whistleblowers that President George W. Bush would have been publicly admonished for.
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Obama/Bush Retains Right To Detain People With No Habeas Review
court denies habeas corpus rights from nytimes: A federal appeals court ruled Friday that three men who had been detained by the United States military for years without trial in Afghanistan had no recourse to American courts. The decision was a broad victory for the Obama administration in its efforts to hold terrorism suspects overseas…
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4/22 Newspurge: My Mercury’s In Retrograde
9/11 updates: ‘Bin laden’ facebook page shut down* Osama tried for satellite link to watch 9/11 from his hideout* Video: Willie Nelson talks 9/11 truth on Larry King Live* Biowars/Envirohealth: Ash-triggered flight disruptions cost airlines $1.7 billion* Rare yellowstone volcano eruption would be deadly* Oil slick spreads from sunken rig off mexican coast* 6.3-magnitude quake…
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decider-in-chief bypasses congress, then visits his afghanisurge
obama bypasses senate process, filling 15 posts from nytimes: President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and install 15 appointees, including a union lawyer whose nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was blocked last…
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Afghan Insurgents Obtained US IED-Blocking Systems
from allgov: Warlocks, the jamming technology used by the U.S. military to thwart roadside bombs in Afghanistan, fell into the hands of the Taliban more than two years ago, according to an Army intelligence document obtained by WikiLeaks. The equipment may have been subsequently shipped to Iran where researchers tried to figure out how Warlocks…
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Interview w/David Wallechinsky of AllGov.com
He’s been called a ‘human encyclopedia’ by Vice Magazine. He’s written a number of books on everything from Olympic history to the worst dictators in the world. David Wallechinsky is a globetrotting historian & he’s also the editor-in-chief of AllGov.com…
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Defcon 3/9: Einstein, CyberShield & Serious Defects
Obama’s cybersecurity initiative puts NSA in driver’s seat // Fmr DNI calls for ‘re-engineering’ the internet // Time’s running out – Einstein’s coming: Cybershield disclosed by White House // Uncle Cyber Scam wants you // Cyberczar Schmidt says ‘there is no cyberwar’